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Nearer my death to thee: Cruising in the closecomfort of a prop jet into the lights of Quebecfor a bilingual spring break, FM thought all thoseyears of French had come to naught. We could havesworn we heard the pilot use the words"bombe" and "une evacuation" as we circledthe city. Silly us, we thought, those Canadiansare too busy trying to keep warm in late March toworry about bombing airports. The pilot'scharmingly accented anglais told usotherwise...
...ALORS: Une examination of the above work reveals some important culturally subversive tendencies; yes, if we are ever to establish equality in this society. . . No, the above poem reveals nothing--or does it? Certainly, the work undermines the concept of authorship itself--perhaps the most important literary revolution of which we can concieve...
...time Seurat is thinking, editing, adjusting. Throughout his career, his efforts are directed to refracting what he sees through what he knows. He quotes Poussin, Ingres, classical marbles, Han figurines; the boy hollering in the water in Une Baignade, Asnieres was once a classical Triton blowing a conch. But the sources are perfectly absorbed in his pictorial intents. For this reason alone, Seurat was an artist of a kind unimaginable in our own fin de siecle, now that art education has been lobotomized by the excision of formal drawing and the study of prototypes...
...French have a word for it: une catastrophe! Exports of champagne, France's ) most beloved beverage, are dropping with the swiftness of a guillotine blade. Overseas shipments of bubbly fell to 12.2 million bottles during the first three months of 1991, a 28% drop from last year's first quarter. Just across the Channel, where British imbibers usually constitute the largest foreign market, imports dropped by half...
...well-known lines of Verlaine's poetry, it was announcing to the French underground that the invasion would begin within 48 hours. At 10:15 p.m. on June 5, a German radio monitor with the Fifteenth Army in Calais heard the second line, "Blessent mon coeur d'une langueur monotone " (Wound my heart with a monotonous languor). The monitor warned his superiors; they ordered an alert, but nobody ever passed the word to the Seventh Army. These German intelligence failures and Eisenhower's daring gamble on the weather combined to give the Allied commander the one great weapon that...